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Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create… — Christopher Pearse Cranch
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you… — Ambrose Bierce
Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism… — Robert Frost
For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he… — Plato
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… — William Faulkner
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… — Arthur Koestler
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for… — Michelangelo
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it… — Georges Braque
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke
When you're too relaxed it's not good to create. — David Guetta
I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment. — Christine Lagarde
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found… — Henri Matisse
The wall around the window does not create two worlds. — Henri Matisse
All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does. — Kenneth Tynan
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other… — Robert Graves
An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there. — Paramahansa Yogananda

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